Rhino poaching at record high - 341 animals killed
Earlier this year, 341 rhinos were killed illegally. In Southeast
Asia, to be paid for the horns of more than 50,000 € per kilo.
The South African government has announced this year, further
efforts to protect animals. In the fight against poachers, even the
military is involved
Photo: AP / DPA
Cape Town. Poachers have shot down more dramatically in the South
African rhinos. According to the WWF were killed in just the first ten
months of the year 341 rhinos. This was a record high, the WWF
reported on Thursday in Cape Town. 2010 a total of 333 rhinos were
killed illegally - three times as many as in 2007.
The demand for the horns of the animals in Southeast Asia, which
would pay for a kilo more than 50,000 € polluting, increasingly, the
rhino population in Africa, and South Asia. From Vietnam, WWF had
reported last week that with the discovery of a Java rhino poached the
animals in the Southeast Asian country is extinct.
The South African government has announced this year, further
efforts to protect animals. In the fight against poachers, even the
military is involved. Between April 2010 and March 2011 were,
according to the Environment Ministry on Thursday a total of 214
suspected poachers arrested, 16 were killed on the run or in shootings
by security forces.
According to the findings of the South African authorities
technically poaching gangs heavily armed - some with helicopters and
night vision equipment - on behalf of organized crime. Currently there
are in South Africa according to official figures approximately 18,800
foot-wide and 2,200 black rhinos.
